Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, councils and businesses – all be using worms to compost it? By Janis Crawford.
… Ethical Living Composting Worms Gardening LandfillLandfills Community Recycling Green Living … Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, …
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports.
… Incineration Industrial Plastics Community Landfills International Development Education … per day. In a city that has only ever landfilled its rubbish, Chiwy is among a group …
With human beings about to become a predominantly urban species, Dan Box asks whether cities can ever be sustainable.
… Population Carbon Dioxide Immigration Cars Landfills Energy Society Archive_91.jpg With … from tree waste that would otherwise go to landfill. In Copenhagen, a similar approach … The recycling programme costs no more than a landfill system, but the city is cleaner, …
Expensive, polluting, unnatural and booming.
Jeremy Smith investigates the ‘death-care industry’
… Smith | 1st December 2003 News Death Funerals Landfills Death-care Industry Companies … Of that, 71 per cent is now piling up in landfill, 20 per cent was incinerated and just … In truth, the 91 per cent that is either landfilled or incinerated has not vanished, …
Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?
… Supplies Water Sources Plastics Consumerism Landfills Recycling Bottled Water Companies …
Ladakh is framed by the Karakoram mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. Yet even in this remote environment the forces of global consumerism are intruding. Nicola Graydon reports on the locals' inspiring defence of their culture
… the UK include visits to old people’s homes, landfill sites and drug rehabilitation …